I don’t want TOR or anything that even remotely has to do with it. What other AI-free alternatives are out there?
Librewolf, only has an offline machine translation
other alternative, Mullvad browser but I haven’t tried.
Wonder if they also removed the local AI translation, which I find very useful, but it’s also another black box.
More or less. I think it’s a fork of Project Bergamot, so not a black box in the usual sense of being unavailable for inspection, but perhaps still inscrutable for most people.
Correct, Tor browser doesn’t include the local translation feature.
Are all of these AI features not transparent?
Even if that were the case, it wouldn’t make any difference. Since the change in CEO, the company has been moving towards AI. When Mitchell Baker made way for Laura Chambers, the company’s policy also changed and the aim now is to make money with AI. In other words, today’s settings could disappear with tomorrow’s updates. However, I understand the move, as open source is not promoted enough and financial resources go to closed source players.
it appears I have to make Tor my baseline browser :( lot’s of stuff that doesn’t require tor-connections, too - so it’s gonna feel like a dial-up modem again. Fuck LLMs
Mullvad browser is probably the most restrictive non-Tor browser. I like Librewolf; has a good compromise on usability and privacy, IMO. I’ve been using Tor a bit more lately, and it wasn’t extremely slow like I remember either, just have to deal with a lot of Captchas and Cloudflare. The NSA and CIA must have beefed up the network :)
I use tor and I haven’t found it to be annoyingly slow. It’s not fast but you can manage with it for most things
